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Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.

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Dana Spiotta
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 16
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Novelist
New Jersey
United States
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The issue isn't, Am I good enough? No. The issue is, Do I not have any other choice? Will and desire don't matter. Ability doesn't matter. Need is the only thing that matters.
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Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.
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The writer has to be brave, I think.
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When I write characters, I need to hear their voice. As soon as I get them speaking, and I feel how they use language, I understand who they are and what they want.
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A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.
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The idea that you can live off the grid and just do your own thing is a very American idea - that you should be able to do your own thing, if you want to, if you're willing to pay the price for it. I think the price has gotten higher and higher.
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I take the outline from a real person as inspiration, but the in-line is totally made up. Which is why I usually invent imaginary names.
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I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
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Even a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways.
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I like to buy books for the kids in my family. I guess that's why they call me the 'mean' aunt.
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I don't feel sentimental about the past, but I can't help noticing how hard it has become to keep a grip on anything. Maybe it's the totalizing impact of corporate culture, maybe it's the atomizing impact of technology.
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All roads lead to Wall Street, but we feel the effects of Wall Street on every street corner. Certainly in Syracuse, N.Y., where I live.
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My teaching forces me to articulate what I think works in a piece of fiction and how I think it works. All of that gives me energy as a writer.
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